Sutter’s Fort
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Sutter’s Fort is a 19th-century agricultural and trade colony in present-day Sacramento, California, that became a key hub during the early American settlement and the California Gold Rush era.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sutter’s Fort canonical | 5 |
| Sutter's Fort | 3 |
| Fort Sutter | 1 |
| Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park | 1 |
| Sutter’s New Helvetia | 1 |
| site commemorated by Sutter's Fort State Historic Park | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T232231 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sutter’s Fort Context triple: [John Sutter, founded, Sutter’s Fort]
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A.
Sutter's Mill
Sutter's Mill was a sawmill in Coloma, California, historically significant as the site where gold was first discovered in 1848, triggering the California Gold Rush.
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B.
Sutter
Sutter is a surname of German origin most notably associated with John Sutter, a 19th-century pioneer linked to the California Gold Rush.
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C.
Paso de San Francisco
Paso de San Francisco is a high-altitude Andean mountain pass on the Argentina–Chile border, known as a key access route to the Ojos del Salado volcano and surrounding desert landscapes.
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D.
Mission San Francisco Solano
Mission San Francisco Solano is the northernmost and last-established of the 21 Spanish missions in California, located in present-day Sonoma.
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E.
Pearl of the West
Pearl of the West is a celebrated nickname for Guadalajara, highlighting its cultural richness, historical significance, and beauty in western Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sutter’s Fort Target entity description: Sutter’s Fort is a 19th-century agricultural and trade colony in present-day Sacramento, California, that became a key hub during the early American settlement and the California Gold Rush era.
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A.
Sutter's Mill
Sutter's Mill was a sawmill in Coloma, California, historically significant as the site where gold was first discovered in 1848, triggering the California Gold Rush.
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B.
Sutter
Sutter is a surname of German origin most notably associated with John Sutter, a 19th-century pioneer linked to the California Gold Rush.
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C.
Paso de San Francisco
Paso de San Francisco is a high-altitude Andean mountain pass on the Argentina–Chile border, known as a key access route to the Ojos del Salado volcano and surrounding desert landscapes.
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D.
Mission San Francisco Solano
Mission San Francisco Solano is the northernmost and last-established of the 21 Spanish missions in California, located in present-day Sonoma.
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E.
Pearl of the West
Pearl of the West is a celebrated nickname for Guadalajara, highlighting its cultural richness, historical significance, and beauty in western Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
agricultural colony
ⓘ
historic fort ⓘ living history museum ⓘ trading post ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | frontier fort ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
California Trail
ⓘ
Donner Party ⓘ John Sutter ⓘ
surface form:
John A. Sutter
|
| city | Sacramento ⓘ |
| constructed | 1841 ⓘ |
| coordinates | approximately 38.572°N 121.471°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| founder | John Sutter ⓘ |
| function | interpretive history site ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bastions
ⓘ
central courtyard ⓘ perimeter walls ⓘ |
| hasUse |
agricultural center
ⓘ
military-style fortification ⓘ museum ⓘ trade hub ⓘ way station for emigrants ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
California Historical Landmark
ⓘ
National Historic Landmark ⓘ listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| historicalTerritory | Mexican Alta California ⓘ |
| inception | 1839 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Sacramento County ⓘ
surface form:
Sacramento County, California
Sacramento ⓘ
surface form:
Sacramento, California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| material |
adobe
ⓘ
wood ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John Sutter ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| operator | California Department of Parks and Recreation ⓘ |
| originalName | New Helvetia ⓘ |
| ownedBy | John Sutter ⓘ |
| partOf |
New Helvetia (his agricultural colony)
ⓘ
surface form:
New Helvetia colony
Sutter’s Fort self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park
|
| region | Sacramento Valley ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
California Gold Rush
ⓘ
aid to Donner Party survivors ⓘ overland migration on the California Trail ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| theme |
California Gold Rush history
ⓘ
early California settlement ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Sutter’s Fort Description of subject: Sutter’s Fort is a 19th-century agricultural and trade colony in present-day Sacramento, California, that became a key hub during the early American settlement and the California Gold Rush era.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fort Sutter
this entity surface form:
Sutter's Fort
this entity surface form:
Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park
subject surface form:
New Helvetia
subject surface form:
New Helvetia
subject surface form:
New Helvetia
subject surface form:
New Helvetia
this entity surface form:
Sutter’s New Helvetia
this entity surface form:
Sutter's Fort
this entity surface form:
Sutter's Fort
this entity surface form:
site commemorated by Sutter's Fort State Historic Park